Exit day is tomorrow, the transition period will last until 31st December.
The Environment Bill (from the previous session) is being brought back today and given its First Reading in the UK Parliament.
I Blog posted already about the earlier Environment Bill (various sections). When the Bill is published I will reprise those areas that are changed, and Blog post as well on the further sections I had not covered.
To remind – the Environment Bill is an important Bill setting up the Office for Environmental Protection (England) and making further changes to UK REACH to enable it to function from 1st Jan 2021, and additionally setting out other measures (England, and some provisions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).
The government announcement last night signals :
(1) A ban on the export of plastic waste (which was in the Conservative manifesto), additional to the waste provisions in the previous Bill. Note, the waste provisions as signalled do not align with the 2019 EU Single-Use Plastics Directive.
(2) A bi-annual review of international developments in environmental law that it says will inform domestic law making.
Please look out for further Blog posts on the matter, when the Bill is published.
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